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Ahern, Pat, ‘Masters of Tradition… Bantry House… 15–19 August 2007’, JMI: The Journal of Music in Ireland vol. 7, no 6 (Nov.–Dec. 2007), p. 34. Review
Carolan, Nicholas, ‘Graveside Words for Tom Munnelly’, An Píobaire vol. 4, no 43 (Dec. 2007), pp. 20–22.
Donnelly, Seán, ‘On the Wrong Side in the American War of Independence: Barney Thompson, Piper to the Volunteers of Ireland 1778–82’, The Pipers’ Review, Iris na bPíobairí vol. 26, no 4 (Autumn 2007), pp. 15–25
Dunbar, Helen, ‘Oisín McAuley: No Strings Attached’, Fiddler Magazine vol. 14, no 4 (Winter 2007), pp. 4–7
Éigse. A Journal of Irish Studies. Electronic Edition. Volumes I–XXXV (1939–2005) with Index (2006), National University of Ireland, Dublin 2007. 3 CDs. Contains much of relevance to traditional music. See also Ní Úrdail, Meidhbhín
Foley, Catherine E., ed., Dance Research Forum Ireland: Proceedings of the 1st International Conference 2006, Dance Research Forum Ireland, Limerick 2007. 166 pp. ISBN 978-0-9557071-0-0 (pb.). Includes
Irene Horgan: At the Crossroads: Irish Step-Dancing Costuming – From the Local to the Global; Elizabeth Venable: Bigger, Brighter, Better?: Irish Dancing Costumes and the Impact of Economic Growth; Sharon Phelan: Dance in Kerry: Cultural Conflict in Modern Ireland; Catherine E. Foley: Maintaining, Redefining and Challenging Dance Boundaries: Irish Traditional Dance within Third-Level Education; Orlaith M. Ní Bhriain: The Institutionalisation of Irish Competitive Step Dance; Darrah Carr: ModERIN – A Crossroads for a Crossroads; Terry Monaghan: Dance and Politics – Surface and Underflow; Erin Tisdale: At a Crossroads: Dance and Irish Culture, the Relationship between Preservation and Documentation; Kathleen Keenan: The House Dance Tradition of Donegal: The Highland; Natasha Joyce: Slipjigus Masculinus (Male Slip Jig) Extinct, Endangered or Dormant?; Maria O’Connor: An Ethnochoreological Study of Achill Cleamairí in the 21st Century
Grasso, Eliot, ‘Going Flat in Concert: A Performer’s Reaction to a Difference in Pitch’, The Pipers’ Review, Iris na bPíobairí as above, pp. 7–9
Heaney, Paddy, ‘Songs and Music of the Slieve Bloom’ in Paddy Heaney, At the Foot of Slieve Bloom: History and Folklore of Cadamstown, Kilcormac Historical Society 2006 (hb.), pp. 155–63
Houston, Kerry, ‘Musical Journeys with the Flight of the Earls: Symposium at DIT Conservatory of Music and Drama, 3 February 2007’, Irish Archives: Journal of the Irish Society for Archives, vol. 14 (Autumn 2007), pp. 33–36
Jackson, John Wyse, and Hector McDonnell, eds, Ireland’s Other Poetry: Anonymous to Zozimus, The Lilliput Press, Dublin 2007. 440 pp. ISBN 978 1 84351 122 9 (hb.). Includes oral-tradition verse
Johnston, Fred, ‘Piperlink… Áras na nGael, Galway, 29 September 2007’, JMI: The Journal of Music in Ireland as above, p. 36. Review
Keegan, Niall, ‘Slide, Overneath (SDE003)’, JMI: The Journal of Music in Ireland as above, pp. 28–29. Review
Kuntz, Andrew, ‘Fiddle Tune History: Surviving Playford’, Fiddler Magazine as above, pp. 34–38
Mahon, William, Catalogue of Irish Manuscripts in Villanova University Pennsylvania, School of Celtic Studies, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, Dublin 2007. 102 pp. ISBN 978 1 85500 199 2 (hb.)
McLaughlin, Dermot, ‘The Dance Music of Séamus Ennis: Pat Mitchell’, An Píobaire vol. 4, no 42 (Sept. 2007), pp. 8–10. Review
McLaughlin, Dermot, ‘Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh, Where the One-Eyed God Is King (Chassis no. 10001001)’, JMI: The Journal of Music in Ireland as above, pp. 27–28. Review
Montague, John, The Pear Is Ripe: A Memoir, Liberties Press, Dublin 2007. 242 pp. ISBN 978-1-905483-25-9 (hb.). Includes Irish traditional music
Moylan, Terry, ‘Airs & Graces: Caoineadh Uí Néill’, An Píobaire vol. 4, no 42 (Sept. 2007 ), pp. 18–19
Moylan, Terry, ‘Anne Clune, ed., Dear Far-Voiced Veteran: Essays in Honour of Tom Munnelly. Old Kilfarboy Society 2007’, An Píobaire vol. 4, no 43 (Dec. 2007 ), p. 10. Review
Mulligan, Néillidh, ‘The Dance Music of Séamus Ennis: Pat Mitchell’, An Píobaire vol. 4, no 42 (Sept. 2007), pp. 10–12. Review
Murphy, Michael & Jan Smaczny, eds, Irish Musical Studies 9. Music in Nineteenth-Century Ireland. Four Courts Press, Dublin 2007. 336 pp. ISBN 978-1-84682-024-3 (hb.) Includes of some or much traditional-music relevance: Harry White: Cultural Theory, Nostalgia and the Historical Record: Opera in Ireland and the Irishness of Opera during the Nineteenth Century; Ita Beausang: From National Sentiment to Nationalist Movement, 1850–1900; Barra Boydell: Constructs of Nationality: The Literary and Visual Politics of Irish Music in the Nineteenth Century; David Cooper: ‘’Twas One of Those Dreams that by Music are Brought’: The Development of the Piano and the Preservation of Irish Traditional Music; Jimmy O’Brien Moran: Irish Folk Music Collectors of the Early Nineteenth Century: Pioneer Musicologists; Marie McCarthy: The Transmission of Song in National Schools of Mid Nineteenth-Century Ireland: Social, Religious and Political Values in Canon; Maria McHale: Singing and Sobriety: Music and the Temperance Movement in Ireland, 1838–43; Lisa Parker: For the Purpose of Public Music Education: The Lectures of Robert Prescott Stewart; Michael Murphy: The Musical Press in Nineteenth-Century Ireland; Jan Smaczny: Musical National Traditions in Ireland and the Czech Lands in the Nineteenth Century: Similar Roots, Creative Divergences
Murphy, Pat, ‘The Flight of the Earls Set’, Set Dancing News (Dec.–Jan.), p. 28. Figure described
Ní Chonghaile, Deirdre, ‘An Teach Ósta: Tinteán an Cheoil Thraidisiúnta?’ in Bliainiris 7 (2007), pp. 72–84
Ní Úrdail, Meidhbhín, comp., Éigse. A Journal of Irish Studies… Index to Volumes I–XXXV [1939–2005], National University of Ireland, Dublin 2006 [recte 2007]. 226 pp. Includes subsidiary indexes for Airs, Amhráin/ song poetry, Ballads, Folksongs, Waulking songs, Music, etc. See also Éigse. A Journal of Irish Studies. Electronic Edition
Ó Bharáin, Liam, ‘Bodhrán: Its Origin, Meaning and History’, Treoir vol. 39, no 4 (2007), pp. 50–6
Ó Catháin, Diarmaid, ‘Féilte Cláirseoireachta Ghranáird, John Dungan, Cóbanhávan, agus an Rómánsachas Luath’, Eighteenth-Century Ireland. Iris an Dá Chultúr vol. 22 (2007), Dublin , pp. 106–32
O’Kaine, Kynch, ‘Brian McNamara and Tim Collins Reed Only (Drumlin Records BTCD001)’, The Pipers’ Review as above, pp. 26–27. Review
Ó Muirithe, Diarmaid, & Bairbre Ní Fhloinn, ‘Some Unpublished Songs and Recitations about 1798’ in The Wexford Man: Essays in Honour of Nicky Furlong, Bernard Browne, ed., Geography Publications, Dublin 2007. ISBN 978-0906602348 (hb.), pp. 73–87
Ó Murchú, Liam P., ed., Amhráin Chearbhalláin / The Poems of Carolan: Reassessments, Irish Texts Society, London 2007. 100 pp. ISBN 978-1-870166-76-8 (pb.). Includes Liam P. Ó Murchú: Foreword; Nicholas
Carolan: Carolan’s Music; Emily Cullen: Carolan, Bardic Disclosures and the Irish Harping Tradition in the 18th and 19th Centuries; Joep Leerssen: Last Bard or First Virtuoso?: Carolan, Conviviality and the Need For an Audience; Lesa Ní Mhunghaile: Carolan’s Verse; Ruairí Ó hUiginn: Tomás Ó Máille, Editor
O’Reilly, Jerry, ‘Frank Harte (1933–2005)’, Folk Music Journal: The Journal of the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library vol. 9, no 3 (2008), pp. 479–80
O’Reilly, Jerry, ‘Tom Munnelly: The Last of the Irish Folk Song Collectors?’, English Dance & Song: The Magazine of the English Folk Dance & Song Society vol. 69, no 4 (Winter 2007), p. 33
Pettinari, Graziano, La Musica Tradizionale Irlandese: Il Contesto Storico e Culturale, Trauben, Torino 2004. 121 pp. ISBN 8888398511 (pb.)
Prior, Brian, comp., Foinn Seisiún 1: 116 Favourite Irish Traditional Tunes, 2nd ed., Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann, Dublin 2007. 46 pp. ISBN 978-0-9556425-2-4. With CDs
Prior, Brian, comp., Foinn Seisiún 2: 104 Favourite Irish Traditional Tunes, 2nd ed., Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann, Dublin 2007. 43 pp. ISBN 978-0-9556425-3-1. With CDs
Prior, Brian, comp., Foinn Seisiún 3: 108 Favourite Irish Traditional Tunes, Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann, Dublin 2007. 45 pp. ISBN 978-0-9556425-4-8
Scahill, Adrian, ‘Contempo Quartet, Mairtín O’Connor, Garry O’Briain, Cathal Hayden, Spiccato Junction (GER-CD-002)’, JMI: The Journal of Music in Ireland as above, p. 27. Review
Scahill, Adrian, ‘DIT Conservatory of Music and Drama, Flow My Tears: Musical Journeys with the Flight of the Earls (DITCMD001)’, Irish Archives as above, pp. 54–6. Review
Scahill, Adrian, ‘Eliot Grasso, Up Against the Flatirons (NPUCD014)’, JMI: The Journal of Music in Ireland as above, pp. 29–30. Review
Simos, Mark, ‘Knotting the Chord: The Art of Accompaniment: Chord Choice Aesthetics in Old Time vs. Irish Music’, Fiddler Magazine as above, pp. 46–47
Small, Jackie, ‘Emmett Gill, The Mountain Groves (NPUCD015)’, An Píobaire vol. 4, no 43 (Dec. 2007), pp. 7–9. Review
Smith, Thérèse, ‘Lillis Ó Laoire, On a Rock in the Middle of the Ocean: Songs and Singers in Tory Island, Ireland. Scarecrow Press, Oxford 2005’, Folk Music Journal as above, pp. 446–48. Review
Vallely, Fintan, ‘Singing the Ancestors: Fintan Vallely on the Teaching of Traditional Singing and the Recent Frank Harte Festival’, JMI: The Journal of Music in Ireland as above, pp. 16–18
Walsh, Edward, Irish Popular Songs: With English Metrical Translations and Introductory Remarks and Notes, Kessinger Publishing, Whitefish [Montana], n.d. 171 pp. ISBN 0548204667 (hb.). Facsimile of 1847
Whitmer, Nick, ‘The Pipes in Literature: References to Pipes, Piping and Music in Some 19th Century Irish Novels – A Summary’, An Píobaire vol. 4, no 43 (Dec. 2007), pp. 24–26